These sports kept them fit for work and strong for war. Back to top Was Anglo-Saxon Britain in the 'dark ages'? Some people thought that after Rome, Britain went into a simple and gloomy ‘dark ...

At the time, there was a lot of 'communication and tension' between Charlemagne and Offa, King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England ... campaign came at the age of 27, when the Pope ...

Anglo-Saxons began to arrive in England in small numbers from AD410, and by AD500 were being fiercely resisted, in a period which used to be known as the Dark Ages, but is now called early ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

He is the author of several highly praised books on English history including In Search of the Dark Ages ... where he did post-graduate research in Anglo-Saxon history. He is a Fellow of the ...